July 2004 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

LAUNCH of INTERNET GOVERNANCE PROJECT
by Hans Klein 18 Jul '04

18 Jul '04

* * * Please Forward * * * ======================= Announcing the Launch of the Internet Governance Project www.InternetGovernance.org ======================= We are pleased to announce the launch of the Internet Governance Project (IGP), a multi-university partnership to analyze global Internet policy issues. IGP's research agenda is closely related to the on-going United Nations' review of Internet Governance. IGP's member institutions include two research centers at Syracuse University: - The Convergence Center at the School of Information Studies - The Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School and one research center at the Georgia Institute of Technology: - The Internet and Public Policy Project (IP3) at the School of Public Policy As its first project IGP is providing the United Nations' Information and Communication Technologies Task Force (UN ICT TF) a detailed analysis of global policy regimes. The resulting study will provide a fact-based "map" of existing global rules for the Internet and the institutions that make those rules. IGP's research team includes: - MILTON MUELLER, Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies - JOHN R. MATHIASON, Adjunct Professor, Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs - HANS KLEIN, Assoc. Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy - LEE MCKNIGHT, Assoc. Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies - MARC HOLITSCHER, Lecturer, Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Zürich For information on the relevant UN activities: http://www.itu.int/wsis/ For more information on the Internet Governance Project: www.InternetGovernance.org or send an inquiry to: info(a)InternetGovernance.org ###

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Conference 2005?
by Angela Thomas 17 Jul '04

17 Jul '04

Dear Colleagues, I wonder if anybody might be able to assist me please with sending me details of the 2005 annual AoIR conference? I am trying to plan ahead for a sabbatical next year but need to complete a mound of paperwork about places, dates and so on. Can anybody assist me please? Kind Regards, Angela Dr Angela Thomas Lecturer in English Education Faculty of Education and Social Work University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia. Phone: +61 2 9351 6229 Fax: +61 2 9351 2606

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media literacy debate
by Rebekah Willett 17 Jul '04

17 Jul '04

Dear colleagues, I'd like to invite you to a public debate entitled, 'Who needs media literacy?' being held in London on 28 July from 6:00-7:30. The aim of the debate will be to generate a dialogue between researchers the policy-makers who are responsible for this area. How do researchers define media literacy, and what do they know about it? How does media literacy develop, and how can it best be promoted or taught? And what do policy-makers need to know about media literacy? The session will be introduced by David Buckingham (Institute of Education), and will feature short presentations from three of the leading keynote speakers from the conference: Henry Jenkins (MIT), Mizuko Ito (University of Southern California) and Sonia Livingstone (LSE). These will be followed by brief responses from policy-makers: Cary Bazelgette (bfi), Robin Blake (Ofcom) and Sylvia Hines (BBC). There will then be an opportunity for dialogue and debate among the audience. The event will take place at the Institute of Education’s Logan Hall, Bedford Way, London WC1, and will be followed by a drinks reception. It will be open to the public as well as to delegates at the ‘Digital Generations’ conference (which runs from 26th-29th July). ‘Digital Generations: Children, Young People and New Media’ is a major international conference, bringing together over 200 researchers from more than 35 countries. For more details, see: http://www.ccsonline.org.uk/mediacentre/Events/main.html Rebekah Willett

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Re: Air-l Digest, Vol 2, Issue 11
by ros 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

dear collegues I wish to indicate you www.politicanline.it, a non commercial, collaborative blog on digital culture looking for international collaboration. For more information feel free to write me. my best rosanna

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Re: SNA & OSS
by mboudour＠upatras.gr 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Hello all, Thanks to everybody who has responded. Special thanks to Lada Adamic, Mariano Belinky, Irene Berkowitz, Ron Burt, Kathleen Carley, Roberto Dandi, Danyel Fisher, Jon Froehlich, James Howison and Robin Teigland. The list below includes only works making use or referring to social network analysis. --Moses M.A. Boudourides Associate Professor Department of Mathematics University of Patras 265 00 Rio-Patras Greece Tel.: +30-2610-996318 Fax: +30-2610-996318, +30-2610-992965 http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour **************************************************************************** Works on F/OSS and Social Network Analysis Crowston, K., & Howison, J. (2003). The social structure of Open Source Software development teams. Submitted for presentation at the "2003 International Conference on Information Systems." http://crowston.syr.edu/papers/icis2003sna.pdf Ducheneaut, N. (n.d.). The reproduction of open source software communities. Ph.D. work at Berkeley. http://www2.parc.com/csl/members/nicolas/open-source.html Gao, Y. (2003). Topology and evolution of the Open Source Software community. MS Thesis. University of Notre Dame. http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/ygaoThesisFinal_12-2-03.pdf Gao, Y., Madey, G., & Freeh, V. (2003). Modeling and simulation of a complex social system: A case study. http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/SimulationSym37_gao.pdf Kuwabara, K. (2000). Linux: A bazaar at the edge of chaos. First Monday, vol. 5, no. 3 (March 2000). http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_3/kuwabara/index.html Lopez-Fernandez, L., Robles-Martinez, G., & Gonzalez-Barahona, J.M. (2004). Applying social network analysis to the information in CVS repositories. http://libresoft.dat.escet.urjc.es/html/downloads/sna-icse-2004.pdf http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/slides/LopezFernandez.pdf Madey, G., Freeh, V., & Tynan, R. (2004). Modeling the F/OSS Community: A quantitative investigation. In S. Koch (ed.), Free/Open Source Software Development. Idea Publishing. http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/BookChapter.pdf Meyer, P.B. (2003). Episodes of collective invention. Working Paper 368. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/meyer.pdf Mockus, A., Fielding, R.T., & Herbsleb, J.D. (n.d.). Two case studies of Open Source Software development: Apache and Mozilla. http://www.research.avayalabs.com/techreport/ALR-2002-003-paper.pdf Myers, C.R. (2003). Software systems as complex networks: Structure, function, and evolvability of software collaboration graphs. Cond-mat/0305575. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305575 O’Mahony, S., & Ferraro, F. (2003). Managing the boundary of an ‘open’ project. Prepared for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Workshop on .The Network Construction of Markets.. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/omahonyferraro.pdf te Meerman, S. (2003). Puzzling with a top-down blueprint and a bottom-up network: An explorative analysis of the Open Source world using ITIL and Social Network Analysis. MS Thesis, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/meerman2.pdf Waguespack, D.M., & Fleming, L. (2004). Penguins, camels, and other birds of a feather: The emergence of leaders in open innovation communities. http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/elf/ECON222/Waguespack%20Fleming.pdf Wasko, M.M., & Teigland, R. (2002). The provision of online public goods: Examining social structure in an electronic network of practice. 23rd International Conference on Information Systems. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~aschwarz/workshop/abstracts/teiglanda.htm Xu, J., & Madey, G. (2004). Exploration of the Open Source Software community. NAACSOS Conference 2004. http://casos.isri.cmu.edu/events/conferences/2004_proceedings/XuJin1.pdf

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An electronic journal on E-democracy in Latin America
by Michel J. Menou 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

If you speak Spanish (or want to learn it) and are interested in E-Democracy issues, especially in Latin America, you may wish to visit www.e-democracia.cl/revista Michel mailto:Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr

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Workshop: Blogging and Public Journalism
by David Akin 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

[Please circulate far and wide] Next month, Toronto hosts the annual conference for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (http://www.aejmc.org/) . As part of the pre-conference hoopla, the Canadian Newspaper Association and the Public Journalism Network (http://www.pjnet.org) has organized an afternoon-long workshop which I'll be moderating. We'll be talking about blogging and how it can inform ideas about participatory and public journalism. Participants are to include Dan Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis, Rebecca MacKinnon and Jay Rosen. (Links to their blogs are at my blog: http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/7/13/105294.html) Here's the blurb from the PJNet site: --------------- Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism August 3, 2004, Toronto, Precedes AEJMC Convention Participatory journalism tools in the form of weblogs and other electronic communications are changing the face of mass media, but are complementary to public journalism. These are powerful tools as Howard Dean’s campaign proved by using weblogs and MeetUp to get 170,000 people nationwide to sign up for face-to-face meetings. The Daily Kos, a citizen run weblog, has 1.5 million unique visitors a month. These are just two of many impressive examples. Learn how we can borrow from or incorporate these tools to improve the state of journalism. Walk Away Knowing: • What journalists can put to use now • What questions researchers should be asking • What journalism professors should be teaching • How citizens around the world can practice participatory journalism • How to begin building information communities. ------------------ [More at: http://www.pjnet.org/toronto_conference.shtml] Canadians interested in this event can download a form and register at: http://www.cna-acj.ca/client/cna/cna.nsf/web/EventsSeminars/ The registration includes dinner and cocktail social! -- David Akin ----------- Oakville, Ontario, CANADA http://www.akin.ca http://davidakin.blogware.com

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the september project in the news
by Ulla Bunz 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Hi - check out this URL to the Seattle Times. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001977381_septproject12 e.html It's an article that discusses (very favorably) The September Project, which was conceived and is headed by one of our own, David Silver, and which by now has reached international dimensions, not to forget the 110 libraries in 24 US states that are participating. The September Project's goal is to start "conversation about democracy, citizenship and patriotism" and it certainly has got the news talking. Are there any opinions here on the list? I think this is a wonderful example of cyberactivism that reaches non-cyber worlds. It's not about an American thing. It's about issues that concern all of us, no matter what country we live in. Ulla ---------------------------------------------------- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Email: bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu ----------------------------------------------------

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Online Registration for AoIR conference
by K.S.O-Riordan＠sussex.ac.uk 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Dear Colleagues The web form for online registration is now online: www.sussex.ac.uk/cce/aoir All the best Kate O'Riordan

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Re: AoIR conference registration now open!
by K.S.O-Riordan＠sussex.ac.uk 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Hi Mark I've forwarded this to the office personnel who are dealing with this side of things and should be able to respond. Please let me know direct if you have any further problems with contact. Thanks Kate

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